--- lanas <lanas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've installed Fedora 9 and would like to share
> some notes about it.
> All in all I was a bit deceived by some of its
> aspects, be them from
> the system itself, KDE, or Konqueror. I think that
> nevertheless I
> will perseverate and will not revert back to Fedora
> 8.
>
> This is a x86 install. before doing the install,
> a backup of
> /home/[user] and /etc/ from F8 was made, kept as a
> reference.
>
> I do not want to draw a grim picture of Fedora 9.
> I might end up
> keeping it after all, but I surely thought about
> reverting back to F8.
> This machine is used for work and it seems I keep
> being trapped into
> this idea of trying not the bleeding edge, not the
> alpha or beta, but
> the official release, thinking that it would end up
> with a wow! effect
> will keeping the functionality I had before,
> notwithstanding some
> small adaptation to some possible (few) new ways of
> doing things.
>
> It seems that time has not yet come.
> Coincidently, I always had
> good experiences with even-numbered releases such as
> Fedora 6 and
> Fedora 8. I still keep F6 at home with all the
> music-making apps
> since it works so well. Too bad it's already
> outdated and there are
> no new updates for it.
>
> Maybe Fedora 10 will have a consistent wow! factor
> ?
>
> The good things:
>
> + At least yum works !!!
> + xine from livna installs fine and plays some
> video fine.
> + using yum, claws-mail install fines and runs
> immediately, provided
> that a previous .claws-mail was copied from F8 in
> the user
> directory.
> + The DVD gave no (DMA or otherwise) errors
> whereas for F8 I had to
> install from a USB key.
>
> The not-so-good things:
>
> * Add/Remove Software utility
> - The Add/Remove software utility shows
> ´Downloading files´ endlessly
> (internet connection is functional)
> - Has no detailed feddback on what's going on
> - Cannot do several tasks at once (waiting for
> other tasks to
> complete) whereas kyum can.
> Result: no software can be installed using this
> utility.
>
> Is this the utility that got a spotlight in F9 new
> features ?
>
> + At least yum works !!!
>
> * Konsole / video
> - Konsole is no longer transparent whereas it was
> with F8
> - Mouse rotary scroll button does not (worked with
> F8)
>
> Konsole reports that the graphic capabilities are
> not good enough to
> support transparency whereas F8 had no problem
> with that (on same
> computer)
>
> Video is:
>
> Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics
> Controller (rev 02)
>
> A quite slow glxgears reports:
>
> Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling
> back to classic.
> 4790 frames in 5.0 seconds = 957.905 FPS
> XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily
> unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
> after 19132 requests (6276 known processed)
> with 0 events remaining.
>
> Video is not so fast, perhaps slower than F8.
> glxgears is not
> right. KDE looks nice, but is slow.
>
> * Missing apps ?
>
> - My favorite kyum is found by the yum installer
> but... kyum cannot
> run because is misses kdesu.
>
> yum install kdesu
> Parsing package install arguments
> No package kdesu available.
> Nothing to do
>
> - same with kpdf
>
>
> * KDE (category: Bummer)
> - Add Widgets widget - how to make it go away ?
>
> - Multiple desktops - not easy to find where to
> add desktops.
> Havent't found it yet. Bummer.
>
> - taskbar - not easy to find how to make it
> disappear
> automatically. Havent't found it yet. Bummer.
>
> - auto mouse focus - not easy to find. Havent't
> found it
> yet. Bummer.
>
> - KDE System Settings: Search is broken as far as
> it cannot return
> anything for ´keyboard´ whereas previous F8 KDE
> reporte a list of
> possibilities. Is this an upgrade ?
>
>
> * Fonts
>
> Although the DejaVu LGC fonts are installed:
>
> ls /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/
> [...]
> DejaVuLGCSansMono-Oblique.ttf
> DejaVuLGCSansMono.ttf
> [...]
>
> It is not possible to use them as per the Fedora
> 8 system, as in:
>
> emacs -fn "DejaVu LGC Sans Mono-12"
>
> The system reports that the font is not found.
> What gives ?
>
> * VmWare (category: very, very useful)
>
> vmware cannot be installed per se because there
> are no sources
> available for that kernel in the repositories.
>
> uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1
> SMP Thu May 1
> 06:28:41 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> And the listing has:
>
> kernel-headers.i386 2.6.25.3-18.fc9 installed
>
> Why aren't the headers the same ? And, where are
> they stored ?
> Maybe I could install VmWare with these.
>
> * Konqueror browser
> - 'right-click' and 'back' does not go back
> anymore
>
> I wonder what kind of upgrade in functionality
> this is.
>
> * Printer
>
> The two network printers couldn't be discovered
> automatically.
>
> * Shares
>
> The two CIFS shares can not be mounted. Still
> have to investigate
> on that one.
>
>
> These were the notes I've taken today. Any
> comments/hints are
>
=== message truncated ===
How about the ugly?
The Good, The Bad and the UGLY.
some would say that the ugly is gdm? But that might
not be the no. 1 answer.
Regards,
Antonio
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